Times Then and Now
Reminiscences and Reflections
Part- 4
Dr. Yerneni Venkateswara Rao
M.Sc.,
Ph. D
Retired
Principal
GUDIVADA-
A.P
B1-46
If gold gets fragrance too, what is to
become of flowers? Evidently nature abhors accumulation of its treasures in any
one place. It prefers , on the contrary, to distribute them equitably among its
different constituents.
Isn’t there a message here for man, that
greedy creature forever pursuing the elusive goal of accumulating ever more
riches of mundane nature ?
B1-47
Nature constantly whispers its messages
into the willing ears of its children with motherly care and concern and
patiently waits for others to turn to it. Those that heed it will reap its
bounties and those that don’t will face its wrath/ fury and perish for while it
can wait , it shall not be fooled nor denied. Even a mother with all her tender
feelings for her offspring should know when to strike and be prepared to do her
damnedest in the interests of the integrity of her family as a whole like a
good surgeon ready with his scalpel to excise the rotten limb in order to save
the body from further putrefaction.
B1-48
Genius is to talent what a vision is to a
view, a strategy to a tactic and a war is to a battle.
B1-49
One who strikes you as a fine looker may
turn out to be a deadly hooker. Beware!!
B1-50
Just as an entry is the census register
fails to make one a man, so does an entry in the establishment register of a
manufactory fail to make a man a worker. Man or worker to be truly one, has to
satisfy other criteria besides being enlisted in wither register. Strangely
though, the first such criterion for both happens to be the same: WORK. So work
one must to establish one’s state of being man or worker. In other words what
is needed most in a workplace is the very thing that is most needed in life too,
to assure oneself and others that one is not a walking corpse but a living
person/ active worker. Devoted work , after all, is at the root of all
prosperity and is the gateway to happiness. So the new slogan should be
‘workers of the world unite to work and produce to prosperity for everybody to
partake in/of’. “No man ever died of hard work if his spirit is in it but
people do die of ennui and other things. So you and I have got to work” so
exhorted Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister as long ago as in 1949.
If only our work force had realised the
full import of those wise words, what a world of difference would it have made
to our country’s industrial and economic advancement and our standing as a nation in the international community?
Furthermore every man is born to do
work-work of one sort or the other. To be called upon to do work is both an
opportunity and a privilege: opportunity because work affords the only means of
proving that one is actually living instead of merely existing, and privilege
because through excellence in performance , one gains entry onto and gets
elevated to the plane of vibrant living , a prerogative of the fortunate few,
instead of wallowing in the mire of mediocrity or worse vegetative existence as
is the lot of many a creature.
B1-52
A man who works with his hands is a
labourer, a man who works with his hands
and his brain is a craftsmen, but a man who works with his hands and his brain
and his heart is an artist. While fully agreeing with Louis Nizer, a great
intellectual and lawyer and writer , I would add that a man who works with his
hands and his brain and his heart and his soul is a yogi for then his self
identification with what he is doing is so total as to dissolve the last trace
of distinction between him and his work leading to the exclusion of awareness
of his very existence/being.
B1-53
If a grandmother is a mother who has a
second chance isn’t a teacher a student who has a second chance?
B1-54
Sycophancy is little men’s way of asserting
their own insignificance /smallness.
B1-55
Sycophancy is small folks’ slippery
staircase /slope to scale the heights of sham glory.
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